Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, AMAZON ON HORSEBACK ATTACKING WARRIOR, SHIELD DEVICE, PANTHER OR LIONESS A: AMAZONOMACHY, AMAZON ON HORSEBACK, WARRIORS (SHIELD DEVICE, IVY WREATH AND STAR) B: DRAPED YOUTHS, SOME WITH STAFFS, STRIGIL AND ARYBALLOS SUSPENDED B: WOMEN, DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: F2353
Previous Collections:
Berlin, Pergamonmuseum: F2353
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1031.39 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 392.15 Genick, A. and Furtwängler, A., Griechische Keramik (Berlin, 1883): PL.3 (A) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 65, PL.50 (A) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 394, FIG.277 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF NOLAN AMPHORA FROM NOLA. POLYGNOTOS. CA. 450.
CAVI Subject: A: AMAZON ON HORSEBACK FIGHTING A GREEK WARRIOR. B: THREE DRAPED YOUTHS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: BETWEEN THE FIGURES: καλος. UNDER FOOT, GR.: ΣΠΑ·Β. I.E.: σπα[θαι]· Β. SEE
JOHNSTON (1979), 163/18F 4 AND P. 230{1}; HACKL (1909), NO. 498.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} JOHNSTON SAYS THE Β IS `INSCRUTABLE,' AS IT CAN HARDLY BE A MILESIAN
NUMERAL AT THIS DATE. THE PRECEDING RAISED DOT (AS GIVEN BY FURTW.) IS ALSO
CURIOUS.
CAVI Comments: σπαθη MUST BE A VASE NAME, PERHAPS THIS TYPE OF AMPHORA; SEE JOHNSTON (1979).
CAVI Number: 2369
AVI Bibliography: FURTWäNGLER (1885), NO. 2353 (FACS. OF GR.). — ARV[2] (1963), 1031/39.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
